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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bjoern Ottervik schrieb: > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: User Reviews In Synaptic? > Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:00:22 +0100 > From: Bjoern Ottervik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sebastian Heinlein wrote: >> On Fr, 2006-12-22 at 15:13 +0100, Ernst Persson wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I started writing a little bit on this spec so I wouldn't forget it. >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >> How do want to deal with users that are not always online? So I would >> vote against an integeration in the normal user interface. >> >> I think that a simple link to a wiki could be a better approach: "Get >> more information and user reviews of BLABLA on the Wiki" >> >> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/packages/b/blabla >> >> But you would still have to think about i18n/l10n. >> >> Furthermore are there already existing data pools? I know that wikipedia >> holds a lot of information about open source software. >> >> Finally we already have got a user rating, that is quite a lot more >> helpful than a voting systems: popularity contest. So only apps that are >> actually installed and used regularly get high rates. You can see this >> feature in the latest gnome-app-install of edgy. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Sebastian >> > The issue with people not being online can be fixed with a local > scoreboard that is synced using anacron when they _do_ go online. Both > popularity-contest and user reviews would be nice to have in synaptic, imho. > > /Björn Ottervi I don't see the advantage of a voting system. Having two rankings is overkill and adds a lot of complexity to the user interface. I think that most users are interested in which application has proven its quality and is therefore used by many others. Voting is a nice feature of web sites that need to attract users and bind them to the site by creating "news". Your suggestion won't be sufficient for most dialup users who don't have got a broadband connection: "I send you this e-mail immediately, oh, wait ... I have to wait a little bit before I can use my Internet connection." I am against including online data into the user interface of an offline application. But I am ok with including a reference to the data on the web. Generally there are a lot of features that would be nice to have. But we should focus on the ones that provide a real benefit to the user. You should think more about "how can we help the user to optimize his work flow and fulfil his needs" and not about "what features can we imagine and implement". So what is the problem that you want to solve by introducing a voting system? Cheers, Sebastian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFkB0ZeujorJNMItURAn6XAJwJekNJkl45BX2ijtg4xb+HPZQNbwCdGksE DMxfY6mXhpwljGTN5UZO1Fg= =rZKP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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